NGC 5694

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Globular cluster NGC 5694

Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
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Constellation	Water snake
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension	14 ^h 39 ^m 36.5 ^s
declination	-26 ° 32 ′ 18 ″
Appearance
Concentration class	VII
Brightness (visual)	10.20 mag
Angular expansion	4.3 '
Physical data
distance	113.2 kLj
history
discovery	William Herschel
Discovery date	May 22, 1784
Catalog names
NGC 5694 • C 1436-263 • GCl 29 • ESO 512-SC010 • GC 3954 • H II 196, h 3576

NGC 5694 is a globular cluster in the constellation of Water Snake . It is possible that NGC 5694 is moving away from our Milky Way system. NGC 5694 has a magnitude of 10.2 mag and an angular diameter of 4.3 arc minutes . NGC 5694 is 113,200 light years away and was discovered by William Herschel on May 22, 1784 .

Web links

Globular Cluster NGC 5694, class VII
NGC 5694 -Escaping Globular from the Galaxy? Archived from the original on November 21, 2008 ; Retrieved December 18, 2013 .

literature

R. Burnham Jr., Burham's Celestial Handbook, Dover Publications, New York, 1978, p. 1031
W. Harris, J. Hesser, NGC 5694: A Globular Cluster Escaping from the Galaxy ?, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 88, 1976, pp. 377-379
M. Hazen, A Search for Variable Stars in the Globular Clusters NGC 5694 and NGC 6558, Astronomical Journal, 111, no. 3, 1996, p. 1184
P. Murdin, D. Allen, D. Malin, Catalog of the Universe, 1979, Book Club Associates, London, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-517-536161

Individual evidence

[NED-1] NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE

[SEDS-2] SEDS : NGC 5694

[3] Seligman